Re: [PATCH] mm: mm, mmap: do not blow on PROT_NONE MAP_FIXED holes in the stack

[Michal Hocko]

On Wed 05-07-17 20:53:02, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 05-07-17 11:35:51, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Dohh, that was on mmotm which has a clean up by Oleg which reorganizes
> > > the code a bit. This is on top of the current master
> > 
> > Oh, ok. I think I know which patch from Oleg you're talking about.
> > 
> > Since I do want that patch too, and since I'd hate to cause
> > unnecessary merge conflicts in this area, how about we just plan on
> > letting your original patch (on top of Oleg's) go through Andrew and
> > the -mm tree? I'll get it that way, and it's not like this is
> > timing-critical.
> 
> That would lead to conflicts when backporting to stable trees though
> which is quite annoying as well and arguably slightly more annoying than
> resolving this in mmotm. I can help to rebase Oleg's patch on top of
> mine which is not a stable material.

Here is the rebase of Oleg's patch.
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